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Can You Wear Sweats To Work?

…when they’re Alternative Apparel, you can! While tending to some style business in the New York City garment district showrooms last week, I caught sight of the newest addition to Seventh Ave: the Alternative Apparel showroom.

Having recently moved into their HQ, Alternative Apparel’s space was organic, simply designed and headed up by two gorgeous employees who were wearing the brand’s wares to work!?

While wearing sweatpants to work sounds completely crazy, these ladies were working it. The adorable Jen had the sexy (and best-selling) burnout tee over leggings with high rise boots and a structured blazer to complete the effortless-chic look, and cute Ryan had on sweatpants (gulp!?) tucked into duck boots with a fitted tee and granpda sweater up top. I couldn’t get enough.

Several years ago, I attended a West Coast gifting suite and was given an Alternative Apparel tee that, I kid you not, was the softest thing that I have ever put on. Over the years, the washes made the shirt distressed in a way that can only happen once in a lifetime. I have dreamed of finding the makers of that shirt many nights over, so when I finally, by pure happenstance, found the showroom, I felt like I was at home. In my sweatpants.